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Always-on Time-Series Database
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Always-on Time-Series Database: Keeping Up Where There's No Way to Catch Up

A discussion with Theo Schlossnagle, Justin Sheehy, and Chris McCubbin.

The SPACE of Developer Productivity
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The SPACE of Developer Productivity

There's more to it than you think.

Toward Confidential Cloud Computing
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Toward Confidential Cloud Computing

Extending hardware-enforced cryptographic protection to data while in use.

Enclaves in the Clouds
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Enclaves in the Clouds

Legal considerations and broader implications

Battery Day
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Battery Day

A closer look at the technology that makes portable electronics possible.

Everything VPN Is New Again
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Everything VPN Is New Again

The 24-year-old security model has found a second wind.

A Second Conversation with Werner Vogels
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A Second Conversation with Werner Vogels

The Amazon CTO sits with Tom Killalea to discuss designing for evolution at scale.

Out-of-This-World Additive Manufacturing
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Out-of-This-World Additive Manufacturing

From thingamabobs to rockets, 3D printing takes many forms.

Differential Privacy
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Differential Privacy: The Pursuit of Protections by Default

A discussion with Miguel Guevara, Damien Desfontaines, Jim Waldo, and Terry Coatta

The Time I Stole $10,000 from Bell Labs
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The Time I Stole $10,000 from Bell Labs

Why DevOps encourages us to celebrate outages.

The Identity in Everyone's Pocket
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The Identity in Everyone's Pocket

Keeping users secure through their smartphones.

The Die is Cast
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The Die is Cast

Hardware security is not assured.

Security Analysis of SMS as a Second Factor of Authentication
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Security Analysis of SMS as a Second Factor of Authentication

The challenges of multifactor authentication based on SMS, including cellular security deficiencies, SS7 exploits, and SIM swapping.

The Life of a Data Byte
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The Life of a Data Byte

Be kind and rewind.

Five Nonobvious Remote Work Techniques
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Five Nonobvious Remote Work Techniques

Emulating the efficiency of in-person conversations.

Data on the Outside versus Data on the Inside
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Data on the Outside versus Data on the Inside

Data kept outside SQL has different characteristics from data kept inside.

The History, Status, and Future of FPGAs
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The History, Status, and Future of FPGAs

Hitting a nerve with field-programmable gate arrays.

Debugging Incidents in Google's Distributed Systems
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Debugging Incidents in Google's Distributed Systems

How experts debug production issues in complex distributed systems.

Dark Patterns
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Dark Patterns: Past, Present, and Future

The evolution of tricky user interfaces.

Is Persistent Memory Persistent?
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Is Persistent Memory Persistent?

A simple and inexpensive test of failure-atomic update mechanisms.
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